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Elections draw best voter turnout since ’72; end today
Daily m Trojan
By David Rosenbaum
Staff Writer
Just over 1(Y7c of the student body voted in the senate election Wednesday, making it the largest voter turnout since student government here was officially disbanded in 1972.
1.500 students voted, said Jerel Yamamoto, chairman of the Joint Elections Committee. Voting will end today as 60 students compete for 16 student senate positions. Also on the ballot is a referendum that would direct the Student Senate
decision-making bodies.
Sonnenberg said interest in student government has increased, but the realization must come that students are definitely limited, and will remain so, when it comes to helping make certain administrative decisions, such as those involving promotion and tenure.
At least one senate candidate agreed. “Certain issues you can’t do anything about,” said Rolando Pasquali. It’s ridiculous for students to think they have measurable influence regarding tuition
University of Southern California
Vol. LXXI, No. 48 Los Angeles, Calif. Thursday, April 28, 1977
Voting for 16 Student Senate undergraduate seats will continue from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at v arious locations around campus. A student must present his current identification card to be eligible to vote. Polls will be set up at these locations:
• Troy Hall mall area
• in front ofTommy Trojan
• on the center divider in front of the Letters, Arts and Sciences Advisement Building
• on the intramural field across from Webb Tower
• in the Engineering Quad
to seek recognition from the Board of Trustees as the official student government here.
Voter turnout Wednesday was “unbelievable.’’ said Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman. Only 300 students voted during last year's first day of balloting, and usually, no more than 15^f of the student body votes during the two days of elections, he said.
The higher-than-normal turnout has not been attributed to the referendum issue. “Most people aren't aware ofthe referendum." said Bill Matsumura, an election commissioner.
The campaign issues include campus security, cafeteria food, parking, tuition increases and that vague catch-all; student representation on administrative
increases, he said.
Yet, Sonnenberg said, the new student senators will have the power to influence such issues as health-fee increases, campus security, usage of existing facilities, all aspects of student affairs and academic standards.
“If you don’t vote, you shouldn't bitch about anything," Yamamoto said.
Nonetheless, many of this year’s voters seem uninformed. At least two voters near Tommy Trojan allowed a campaigner to help them mark their ballots. He advised them as to which candidates were minorities and should be elected.
The informed voters have read Wednesday's issue of the Daily Trojan, Pasquali said. It contained candidate statements.
But Oscar Streeter, a senior in biology,
STOP AND VOTE—Campaign signs abound all over campus urging everyone to vote in the Student Senate elections, which conclude today. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
said he was included to vote for those candidates who did not have their campaign statements published. “Most of these statements are a bunch of bull,” he said.
After looking over Wednesday’s Daily Trojan, however, Streeter decided to vote for the single black Row candidate and a student who Streeter assumed is a Democrat because he works for California’s lieutenant governor. Democrats would make the conservative Student Senate more open-minded, Streeter said.
Streeter, a black, said he expected few
other blacks would vote.
“It’s interesting to see how everyone promises everything's going to change,” said Dennis Mulhaupt of the campaigners. He is the codirector ofthe Student Senate’s Academic Affairs Unit.
Furthermore, some of the elected candidates will never be effective in Student Senate, Sonnenberg said. The majority, however, will be competent,well-rounded individuals after they learn the ways of the Student Senate, probably by September, he said.
(continued on page 2)
Female magician makes comical (dis)appearance
By Dave Leon Moore
\>sistant Sports Editor After Judy Carter finished her part-comedy, part-magic, part-acting routine Wednesday in Hancock Auditorium, she began stuffing her big. black leather bag of tricks full of props that she had used.
Everything seemed to be the wrong size.
The playing cards were too big for Amarillo Slim to ever slide
them up his sleeve.
The American flag was so small that Rick Monday wouldn't even bother rescuing it from some would-be banner burners.
But one thing fit perfectly. Judy Carter. She fit on stage into a Hefty bag. which in turn fit into a garbage can. Then she disappeared.
Carter has been doing this sort of thing since she was 10 years old. She's 26 now.
She is a USC graduate in telecommunications. That explains the videotape routine she does. She tries to guess a particular number that someone is thinking of. She purposely bungles the trick on stage, then shows a videotape of her playing the ac-cordian (and pretty atrociously) on her bed at home. The correct number is written on her leg.
Chowing down on a postperformance meal in the Commons, she said she got her degree “gradually, majoring in magic." But a quick look through a USC catalogue will tell you she's pulling your magic wand.
“I made my tuition performing my act at frat parties along the Row.” she said. “It was just awful. Everybody would get so drunk.” She said it was pretty disheartening doing a trick and saying, “Here, examine this” to a guy who was having enough trouble just focusing on the wall.
Her performance Wednesday made her very happy, though One thing she had never been able to do was make tuition disappear. “But today 1 finally got some of my money back.” she said. “But my mom would probably go crazy if she ever found out I was making money by turning tricks at I SC.”
Although magic and comedy — especially comedy — has always been a big part of Carter's personality, she didn't always have to depend on it for a living.
She taught telecommunications at Harvard fortwoyears. It might seem strange why someone wouldgive up something likethat totry to make it in such a competitive field like entertainment.
(continued on page 2)
JUDY CARTER
Financial-aid award letters due in May despite extra paper work
Financial-aid award letters are still expected to be mailed today for entering students and by mid-May for continuing students, despite paper-work problems confronting the Financial Aid Office.
In a policy change this year, the office requires students to submit copies of income-tax forms (1040) to facilitate verification of eligibility for financial aid based on reported income and assets.
Another purpose behind requiring the tax statement is allowing verification of dependency status, said Linda Berkshire, assistant to the dean for student and public affairs.
In the majority of cases, tax forms from 1975 and
1976 of both the student and parents must be included with financial-aid forms and parents confidential statements before the awards are processed. About 3,000 notices have been sent to entering and continuing students informing them that their files cannot be processed until the 1040 forms are received, she said.
Students claiming themselves as independents when filing for financial aid must answer a three-part question: Did they receive assistance from their parents in 1976? Are they receiving parental aid now? Will they receive such assistance in 1978? If any of these can be answered in the affirmative, the student is not eligible for aid as an independent. The tax forms will help verify this informa-
tion, Berkshire said.
Although the new requirement has created much more paper work, the forms are being processed by about the same number of people as last year. Numerous people, however, are working overtime, including evenings and Saturdays, said James L. Jones, director of financial services.
He said the office is receiving about 100 tax forms a day from both entering and continuing students.
As of Friday, 14,519applications for admission to the university have been received requesting financial aid. Of these, 5,720are from continuingstu-dents, Jones said.
Conditional Offer Forms will be sent out next week to students who have not included a 1040 form with their financial aid packages. The forms state that, based on information provided, it appears the student is eligible for assistance, but no firm commitment can be given without the form, Jones said.
This is the first year the university has required the tax forms, but the practice is common at most other schools across the country and has been for some time, Jones said.
Processing cannot be done without the tax forms because it would be too time consuming to offer a certain amount of aid and then change the amount later, Berkshire said.
Faculty-student unit to study Century II
Identifying possible target goals for faculty and students in the Toward Century II fund-raising campaign will be attempted by a small task force formed Wednesday.
The group was suggested at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the President’s Advisory Council (PAC). Projected problems with the reduced seating at the Coliseum for football games was also discussed.
Toward Century II is a solicitation of funds to increase the university endowment and to prepare the university for its second century, which begins in 1980. A goal of$265 million has been established for the project. More than $120.5 million has already been collected or pledged.
The reason for establishing student and faculty goals is to create a project through which university interest could be demonstrated in the project, said John Griffith, executive assistant to the PAC chairman.
“Grassroot, internal support is very important to external groups and foundations,” Griffith said. With a demonstration of this support it was felt more foundations and individuals would be wi lling to cont ribute.
Three projects have been identified for consid-
eration, said Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman. They are library improvement, campus beautification and building a theater in the University Village complex.
Griffith said it will be the objective of the task force to determine which project will be the most attractive and what the goals should be.
The question of seating in the Coliseum was brought to the attention of the committee by President John R. Hubbard.
Hubbard requested that a task force be established to determine how university seats will be divided among alumni, faculty, students and donors.
Coliseum seating will be reduced next fall from just over 90.000 to 71.000 for all but two football games. Seating for the USC-UCLA and USC-Notre Dame games will be returned to the 90.000 level.
In other action, the committee passed a resolution saying the university should take no official role in the current integration planning of the Los Angeles Unified School Distruct.
Griffith said the motion will have no effect on individual faculty or staff members who wish to participate in an unofficial role.

Elections draw best voter turnout since ’72; end today
Daily m Trojan
By David Rosenbaum
Staff Writer
Just over 1(Y7c of the student body voted in the senate election Wednesday, making it the largest voter turnout since student government here was officially disbanded in 1972.
1.500 students voted, said Jerel Yamamoto, chairman of the Joint Elections Committee. Voting will end today as 60 students compete for 16 student senate positions. Also on the ballot is a referendum that would direct the Student Senate
decision-making bodies.
Sonnenberg said interest in student government has increased, but the realization must come that students are definitely limited, and will remain so, when it comes to helping make certain administrative decisions, such as those involving promotion and tenure.
At least one senate candidate agreed. “Certain issues you can’t do anything about,” said Rolando Pasquali. It’s ridiculous for students to think they have measurable influence regarding tuition
University of Southern California
Vol. LXXI, No. 48 Los Angeles, Calif. Thursday, April 28, 1977
Voting for 16 Student Senate undergraduate seats will continue from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at v arious locations around campus. A student must present his current identification card to be eligible to vote. Polls will be set up at these locations:
• Troy Hall mall area
• in front ofTommy Trojan
• on the center divider in front of the Letters, Arts and Sciences Advisement Building
• on the intramural field across from Webb Tower
• in the Engineering Quad
to seek recognition from the Board of Trustees as the official student government here.
Voter turnout Wednesday was “unbelievable.’’ said Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman. Only 300 students voted during last year's first day of balloting, and usually, no more than 15^f of the student body votes during the two days of elections, he said.
The higher-than-normal turnout has not been attributed to the referendum issue. “Most people aren't aware ofthe referendum." said Bill Matsumura, an election commissioner.
The campaign issues include campus security, cafeteria food, parking, tuition increases and that vague catch-all; student representation on administrative
increases, he said.
Yet, Sonnenberg said, the new student senators will have the power to influence such issues as health-fee increases, campus security, usage of existing facilities, all aspects of student affairs and academic standards.
“If you don’t vote, you shouldn't bitch about anything," Yamamoto said.
Nonetheless, many of this year’s voters seem uninformed. At least two voters near Tommy Trojan allowed a campaigner to help them mark their ballots. He advised them as to which candidates were minorities and should be elected.
The informed voters have read Wednesday's issue of the Daily Trojan, Pasquali said. It contained candidate statements.
But Oscar Streeter, a senior in biology,
STOP AND VOTE—Campaign signs abound all over campus urging everyone to vote in the Student Senate elections, which conclude today. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
said he was included to vote for those candidates who did not have their campaign statements published. “Most of these statements are a bunch of bull,” he said.
After looking over Wednesday’s Daily Trojan, however, Streeter decided to vote for the single black Row candidate and a student who Streeter assumed is a Democrat because he works for California’s lieutenant governor. Democrats would make the conservative Student Senate more open-minded, Streeter said.
Streeter, a black, said he expected few
other blacks would vote.
“It’s interesting to see how everyone promises everything's going to change,” said Dennis Mulhaupt of the campaigners. He is the codirector ofthe Student Senate’s Academic Affairs Unit.
Furthermore, some of the elected candidates will never be effective in Student Senate, Sonnenberg said. The majority, however, will be competent,well-rounded individuals after they learn the ways of the Student Senate, probably by September, he said.
(continued on page 2)
Female magician makes comical (dis)appearance
By Dave Leon Moore
\>sistant Sports Editor After Judy Carter finished her part-comedy, part-magic, part-acting routine Wednesday in Hancock Auditorium, she began stuffing her big. black leather bag of tricks full of props that she had used.
Everything seemed to be the wrong size.
The playing cards were too big for Amarillo Slim to ever slide
them up his sleeve.
The American flag was so small that Rick Monday wouldn't even bother rescuing it from some would-be banner burners.
But one thing fit perfectly. Judy Carter. She fit on stage into a Hefty bag. which in turn fit into a garbage can. Then she disappeared.
Carter has been doing this sort of thing since she was 10 years old. She's 26 now.
She is a USC graduate in telecommunications. That explains the videotape routine she does. She tries to guess a particular number that someone is thinking of. She purposely bungles the trick on stage, then shows a videotape of her playing the ac-cordian (and pretty atrociously) on her bed at home. The correct number is written on her leg.
Chowing down on a postperformance meal in the Commons, she said she got her degree “gradually, majoring in magic." But a quick look through a USC catalogue will tell you she's pulling your magic wand.
“I made my tuition performing my act at frat parties along the Row.” she said. “It was just awful. Everybody would get so drunk.” She said it was pretty disheartening doing a trick and saying, “Here, examine this” to a guy who was having enough trouble just focusing on the wall.
Her performance Wednesday made her very happy, though One thing she had never been able to do was make tuition disappear. “But today 1 finally got some of my money back.” she said. “But my mom would probably go crazy if she ever found out I was making money by turning tricks at I SC.”
Although magic and comedy — especially comedy — has always been a big part of Carter's personality, she didn't always have to depend on it for a living.
She taught telecommunications at Harvard fortwoyears. It might seem strange why someone wouldgive up something likethat totry to make it in such a competitive field like entertainment.
(continued on page 2)
JUDY CARTER
Financial-aid award letters due in May despite extra paper work
Financial-aid award letters are still expected to be mailed today for entering students and by mid-May for continuing students, despite paper-work problems confronting the Financial Aid Office.
In a policy change this year, the office requires students to submit copies of income-tax forms (1040) to facilitate verification of eligibility for financial aid based on reported income and assets.
Another purpose behind requiring the tax statement is allowing verification of dependency status, said Linda Berkshire, assistant to the dean for student and public affairs.
In the majority of cases, tax forms from 1975 and
1976 of both the student and parents must be included with financial-aid forms and parents confidential statements before the awards are processed. About 3,000 notices have been sent to entering and continuing students informing them that their files cannot be processed until the 1040 forms are received, she said.
Students claiming themselves as independents when filing for financial aid must answer a three-part question: Did they receive assistance from their parents in 1976? Are they receiving parental aid now? Will they receive such assistance in 1978? If any of these can be answered in the affirmative, the student is not eligible for aid as an independent. The tax forms will help verify this informa-
tion, Berkshire said.
Although the new requirement has created much more paper work, the forms are being processed by about the same number of people as last year. Numerous people, however, are working overtime, including evenings and Saturdays, said James L. Jones, director of financial services.
He said the office is receiving about 100 tax forms a day from both entering and continuing students.
As of Friday, 14,519applications for admission to the university have been received requesting financial aid. Of these, 5,720are from continuingstu-dents, Jones said.
Conditional Offer Forms will be sent out next week to students who have not included a 1040 form with their financial aid packages. The forms state that, based on information provided, it appears the student is eligible for assistance, but no firm commitment can be given without the form, Jones said.
This is the first year the university has required the tax forms, but the practice is common at most other schools across the country and has been for some time, Jones said.
Processing cannot be done without the tax forms because it would be too time consuming to offer a certain amount of aid and then change the amount later, Berkshire said.
Faculty-student unit to study Century II
Identifying possible target goals for faculty and students in the Toward Century II fund-raising campaign will be attempted by a small task force formed Wednesday.
The group was suggested at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the President’s Advisory Council (PAC). Projected problems with the reduced seating at the Coliseum for football games was also discussed.
Toward Century II is a solicitation of funds to increase the university endowment and to prepare the university for its second century, which begins in 1980. A goal of$265 million has been established for the project. More than $120.5 million has already been collected or pledged.
The reason for establishing student and faculty goals is to create a project through which university interest could be demonstrated in the project, said John Griffith, executive assistant to the PAC chairman.
“Grassroot, internal support is very important to external groups and foundations,” Griffith said. With a demonstration of this support it was felt more foundations and individuals would be wi lling to cont ribute.
Three projects have been identified for consid-
eration, said Glenn Sonnenberg, Student Senate chairman. They are library improvement, campus beautification and building a theater in the University Village complex.
Griffith said it will be the objective of the task force to determine which project will be the most attractive and what the goals should be.
The question of seating in the Coliseum was brought to the attention of the committee by President John R. Hubbard.
Hubbard requested that a task force be established to determine how university seats will be divided among alumni, faculty, students and donors.
Coliseum seating will be reduced next fall from just over 90.000 to 71.000 for all but two football games. Seating for the USC-UCLA and USC-Notre Dame games will be returned to the 90.000 level.
In other action, the committee passed a resolution saying the university should take no official role in the current integration planning of the Los Angeles Unified School Distruct.
Griffith said the motion will have no effect on individual faculty or staff members who wish to participate in an unofficial role.